Attachment for vehicles.



C. TODDj ATTACHMENT FOR VEHICLES.

APPLIoATIoN FILED JULY 1. 190s.

Petentea Feb.16, 1909;

wit" mozo CLYDE TODD, 'OF PITTSBURG. PENNSYLVANIA.

ATTACHMENT Foa VEHICLES.

speication or Letters Patent..

Patented Feb. 16, 1909.

applicati@ mea July 1, 190s. serial No. 441,396.

To all whom fit may concern:

B e 1t known that I, CLYDE Toni), a citizen of the United States of America, residing at- Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and `State of Pennsylvania, have invented cervehicle.

A still 4further object of this invention is to provide a strong and durable brake that will retard the movement of a vehicle passwhich will more readily in over slip ery surfaces.

ith the a ove and other objects in view a pear as the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts Ato be resently described and then specically pomted out in the appended claim;

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a side 'elevation ofa vehicle equipped with my brake,

and Fig. 2 is a bottom plan of the brake mechanlsm.

In the accompanying drawings, 1 designats the bed of a wagon supported -by springs 2 above axles 3 and 4, these axles being provided with wheels 5 and 6. In connection with the wheel 6 ordinary brake shoes 7 areused, -these shoes being moved through the medium of a crank shaft 8, connecting rod 9 and operating lever 10.

To equi the wagon w-ith my improved brake mec anism I provide the rear axle 3 with bearings 11 for pivoted arms 12, said arms having brackets 13. Between the bracketsv 13 and thearms 12 are revolubly mounted toothed wheels 14.-. The arms' 12 are. connected together adjacent to their lower ends by a cross bar 15, and this bar is connected by links 16 to the .cranks 17 of the shaft 18, said shaft bein journaled in depending brackets 19 carrie by the bed of of the wagon. The outer ends of the crank shaft 1S are provided with cranks 20, and these cranks are connected by rods 21to the cranks 22 of the crank shaft' 23, said shaft beino j ournaled in angular Bearings 24 rovideil therefor upon the foot board 25 o the wagon.

Mounted upon the shaft`23 is an o erating lever 26 provided with a springpressed locking pawl 27 adapted tol engage a segment shaped rack 28, carried by the foot board 25. The operating lever 26 is located in proximity to the operating lever 10, wherebyv the' driver of the vehicle can readily control both levers.

It is obvious that -when the operating lever 26 is moved forward that the toothed wheels 14 are lowered into engagement with the surface over which the vehicle is traveling, this movement of the toothed wheels being accomplished by virtue ofthe crank shafts 23 and 18, connecting rods 9, links 21 and 16, and the pivoted arms 12.

Vhile in the drawings forming a part o this application there is illustrated the preferred embodiments of my invention, I desire it to be understood that the elements therein may be varied or changed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having now described my invention what I 'claim as new, is

The combination with a vehicle bed having a foot board and supporting axles, of a pair of bearings secured to and projecting forwardly from the rear axle, a pair of for` wardly extending and downwardly depending arms ivotally connected at their rear ends to said bearings and at their forward -ends each provided with a bracket, toothed wheels revolubly mounted in said brackets and adapted to engage the surface over which said vehicle travels whereby the movement of the vehicle` is arrested or retarded, a transversely extending bar connecting said arms together rearwardly of said brackets, keepers secured to the vehicle bed, a shaft revolubly supported by said keepers and 'havingan inner and an outer pair oflcrank arms, said inner pair of crank arms normally extending forwardly and downwardly at an inclination and said outer pair of crank arms normally extending rearwardly and downwardly at an inclination, a air of rearwardly anddownwardly incline linksy having the forward ends thereof bent in.

v of sai anlanle and connected to the forward ends connection with said leverfor retaining the inner'pair of crank arms, said links same in a fixed position. having their rear ends connected `to said 'bar In testimony whereof I afiix my signature inwardly ofthe ends of said bar, a crank inthe presence of twowitnesses.

,-;. shaft revolubly supported -upon` said foot CLYDE TODD.

board, rods connecting said crank shaft to Witnesses: the outer pair of crank arms, an operating Jon W. SHESNUT, lever carried by the crank shaft, means in K. H. BUTLER. 

